Gear & Axe

The party started the day after a rest of the airship, The Sloar’s Embrace.

Planning their next move, they were visited by the evoker Teucron, who works for the gold dragon Aurajax.

Teucron found the party after their run-in at the weather lab, but hasn’t informed his master yet, who immediately follow the necromancer Yorin’s request to destroy them to save his mate from the necromancer’s clutches. But Teucron hoped to find another solution that doesn’t benefit Yorin.

Teucron identified The Vault as a floating island above Daemineria which they use to store dangerous cursed items, from minor items to the Tartaric Phylactery, the Foldable Mountain, and the body of the slain Coven witch.

The Vault is protected from teleportation on to and off of the island itself. It’s only accessible by flight.

Cursed items are kept in individual portable holes and there are testing rooms with various safety protections (i.e. spell absorption, Wall of Force).

A new request from Yorin came to Aurajax that morning to convince the Daeminerian council not to look for professor Mortico and to ressurect the executed flesh golem from the other day. This new request was strange, as the search for Mortico had gone on for a whole day without interest from Yorin.

A pact with Teucron and the party was made. The party would try to find the location of Aurajax’s mate while Teucron would use his contacts to keep forces near the Vault and to patrol the mountain areas where the party thought Yorin’s airship was moored for repairs.

The party created a teleportation circle going to the runes left by Mortico and the Green Scarves. They appeared 100 feet above the Vault in a teleportation circle floating secretly above the floating island.

Two zombies stood guard at the entrance and were destroyed.

Inside the entrance to the Vault were unmoving bodies of wights, wyverns, and Green Scarves.

In a side room there was a table that was bolted into the floor and wall, but removed.

The party defeated the Green Scarves at the entrance of the abandoned weather station and locked the agents of Aurajax, the dragon, outside. They communicated to Aurajax who ordered them to surround the building and await his arrival.

An iron wire was found that ran from the ceiling into the floor. Burn marks followed the wire along the walls.

The party went into the basement of the weather station to find trapped doors and corridors.

Howellian Tark docked in Daemineria and brought his own soldiers to search for the spellweaver who attacked Mevrix the Enchanter.

An announcement came across Daemineria’s giant crystal orbs announcing the deaths of students and the search for Professor Mortico as a person of interest.Late afternoon to early evening

Near the Tipsy Cauldron inn Pikos made an arrangement with the local thieves guild, The Dancing Tricksters, to look over any damage caused to the inn up-to and including possible deaths of locals by the party.

Brokmund discovored from the stable boy that Mortico had checked out of the inn in the afternoon.

From the innkeeper, the party discovered that Mortico worked with a local group called The Green Scarves, ex-military who work as hired muscle and live in the abandoned weather station in the Poor Quarter.

The party went to the abandoned weather station to find that it was hosting a weekly soup line for the poor and that it appeared to be an abandoned arcane lab from the outside.

A recently accessed book was found marked to an entry on the Tartaric Phylactery an item able to create an undead under the command of the phylactery’s owner. If the undead is destroyed, it will re-form after 24 hours.

Mail contained multiple bills for professor Mortico from the Tipsy Cauldron inn in the poor quarter where he has been staying recently.

The note on taking care of the house to a student named Chroma indicates that Mortico plans to return tomorrow.

On their way to Professor Mortico’s house a public announcement aired through Daemineria showing the public execution of a flesh golem charged with murder. The execution was performed by a well-known wizard named Maximilian.

The party investigated Professor Mortico’s house and found that the windows were magically darkened.

An Arcane Eye discovered party-goers dressed as undead inside, but among them were real undead (6 wights).

Professor Mortico was not there, but instructions on the care and feeding of his carnivorous plant was found.

Day 130 morning

The party returned to try to kidnap the plant.

Pikos snuck unto the roof but was attacked by two invisible undead wyverns.

The party attacked, heading to the roof and breaking into the first floor.

The party defeated the chimeras attacking their airship, The Sloar’s Embrace.

The warforged crew member (#10) perished.

Reaching the arcane city of Daemineria the party’s airship was greeted by two Daeminerian dragons.

A nearly blind bronze dragon named Huronillin inspected the airship while her companion, a huge gold dragon named Aurajax flew nearby.

Aurajax asked Huronillion if there were individuals on the airship that matched the party, but Huronillion’s poor vision did not recognize them.

Huronilion reported that on the tip of Regent Beyfor of Attigen they searched for Yorin’s airship and engaged in a great battle. They chased off the Krakken’s Anvil, but Huronillon’s mate died (a copper dragon), and Yorin dragged off her body.

Once docked, the party arranged with the enchanter Mevrick and his student Calvor to teleport the disguised plow shares to his laboratory. They got paid 1,000 gp just for arriving in Daemineria.

Day 129

When the party teleported to Mevrick’s lab, Mevrick was attacked by a spellweaver and his ogre minions. The spellweaver claimed that Mevrick stole time manipulating gems from him and ordered the party to leave.

The party arrived at Frey’s Grave, where the Mid Realm god died at the end of the Coven War.

A small camp has been allowed to be established on the site by Attigen to study the body of the fallen god.

The body of the fallen god has melded into the side of mountain with the steam-powered sword of the shaper who killed him stuck through his body and the side of the mountain. Fankorian technicians and spellcasters have not been able to remove the sword.

Worshippers of Frey have also gathered hoping for any sign from their fallen god.

Day 119

The party started to travel into the pass.

A distress call came in through the soundcone from a male named Sillfer. He said his balloon had crashed and he needed help.

Invectrorus did not trust Sillfer and refused to help.

Sillfer offered secret new technology and that he was being hunted by Fankorians, but Invectorus was not convinced and ordered his crew to move on.

A couple hours later three flying shapers came by looking for a downed balloon. They said they were with the Fankorian Fifth Air Legion.

The crow’s nest saw mostly unmarked, grey shapers with the designation “L5” marked on their shoulders.

Invectorus informed them that they had heard from a downed ballooner, but did not find his location.

The shapers thanked him for the information and flew on.

When the shapers flew by some of the other party members remember from the war that designations of “L+number” designate Fankorian government research labs (Lab 1, Lab 2, etc.) though they often had other markings as well.

The party decided to leave Tark once he spotted them and moved into the street into the view of the city guard.

Party scouted the green house where the Grimtooth were holding the elemental coal. They chose not to engage them that night.

Long rest

Day 28, afternoon

Overnight the Sons of the Kraken (SoK) discover the merchant ship that transported the party to Gai Moor’a. They put guards on the ship and imprison the ship officers near the SoK throne room.

The SoK are now willing to buy the elemental coal from the Grimtooth Battalion.

The party waits till nightfall to rescue the officers.

Day 28, evening

Tark sends word that he wants to help the party.

They meet in a warehouse for the Gea god temples. They party agreed to help Tark clear shipping lanes, in return he will rescue the crew while the party gets the officers. Tark will also fly them all out from an airship he has nearby.

The party convinced the Grimtooth to stand down and the party escaped the Shell-less Mermaid.

In a nearby alleyway the party went over the map on Jaezin's body seeing where the elemental coal is located.

The ghost of the dead pit fighter comes to Vaunk and Vaunk has the choice to send the soul to Valhalla, the realm of Hades on behalf of Garl Glittergold, or a mysterious third door manned by a cloaked figure offering gold. Vaunk chose to send this soul to Valhalla.

The party tries to scout the meeting place with Howellan Tark, but is discovered by Iliviel, an elven agent of Tark.

Iliviel warns Tark across the street that the party is coming after him, and Tark moves to escape.

Party defeated the mini-Kraken and took the petrified gnome, The Fonk.

They party dropped the unconscious Virtok off in an alley.

The party went to the Greasy Girallon to see Kiri.

The party Un-petrified the Fonk.

Kiri and the Fonk will wait in Gai’Moora to help the party hoping they will help save their village from being destroyed by Earl Bromkar.

The gems with transmuted dwarves were given to Brother Vitel for safe keeping.

The town of Gai’Moora was put in lock-down as the Sons of the Kraken are looking for the strangers who stole from them. The gates are closed and two pirate ships are preventing any other ships from leaving port.

Brother Vitel arrived and reported that Tark and the Grimtooth Battalion are going to make their transaction that night for the contraband steamplate and the elemental coal stolen from Attigen’s mines.

The party went to the bar with the Grimtooth are waiting before the sale, The Shell-less Mermaid (a mercenary bar which has a fighting pit). They go into the bar under the guise of The Company of the Iron Coin

Grimtooth present: four hobgoblins, a hill giant outside, and a quickling commander.

The party left the necromancer’s (Yorin) tower and rested before infiltrating the Sons of the Kraken’s throne room to rescue/pilfer The Fonk and the remaining dwarven miners in the gnome’s possession.

Brokmund finalized the purchase of a smithy which he donated to temple of Brokkr/Odin/Thor.

Brother Vitel informed the party that Tark found a buyer for his contraband suits of steamplate and it is non other than the Grimtooth Battalion. They are still negotiating a price.

Day 28 – early morning

In the dark of night the party snuck into the throne room. Steen tried to silently approach the petrified body of The Fonk, but was discovered by a vapid human named Virtok.

A man-sized squid revealed himself from behind the throne, from the other side of a clear wall that holds back a giant tank of water. It sent a tentacle through a sealed hole in the glass wall and possessed Virtok to speak through the human. The giant squid is in fact a child of the giant Kraken which died fighting the animated sea turtle during The Coven War.

When the druid awakened the giant squid and charmed it, the druid did not know that the squid was pregnant. Its children were also given intelligence. And psychic powers.

Tens of thousands of children of the Kraken rule Gai Moor’a.

Six mini-kraken entered the room piloting small jars on robot legs to attack the party.